Peculiar Divorce Case.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 129, 27 November 1894, Page 2

Peculiar Divorce Case.

(Per Press Association). Dunedin, JN'ovet*ibT2s. Ihe divorce caße of Samuel Shields v. Jeot- Shields (respondent) and T, Edward Brown (co-respondentj the husband's petition was heard on Thursday. No de« fence was filed. The circumstances were rather peculiar, Samuel Shields, the petitioner, married the respondent in Jan* vary, 1893, they having kept company for about two years. His employer had un pressed on him that it was improper for a young man to marry on his salary. The parties were married, but agreed to live apart so that the employer should sot know. Tho petitioner paid for his wife's board, but she subsequently took a situation in a hotel. Petitioner, having reason to suspect his wife, secured her lodgings in the country, but she only remained there a few days, when she took a situa tion in another hotel. From reports he heard the petitioner's suspicions were confirmed His employer having died he took a house for his wife, but tbe partien did not live together then, and never have done so. A watch was set and evidence secured. His Honor granted a decree nisi with costs against the co-respoodent The petitioner's condnct appeared to bave been honest and hia intentions good. Tho Court was not prepared to say that if he had made errors of judgment it would have conduced to liis wife's adultery.